John Calvin Quotes

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

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• Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Survival

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Car
  • Racing

• For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Present
  • Professional
  • Doing

• I hate seaweed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Hate
  • Seaweed

• There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Intelligent

• What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.

  

  Warren Farrell

• In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Friend

• When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore

  

  Edward Lear
  • Great
  • Long
  • Silence

• singing the song her therapist told her to improvise in order to 'let her anxieties out' If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no one will die!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Song
  • Die
  • Singing

• To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • World
  • Book
  • Author

• I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Writing

• In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Church

• My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

  

  Enid Nemy
  • Husband
  • Sea
  • My Husband

• So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

  

  David C. Coates
  • People
  • Animal
  • Laughter

• I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Someone
  • Drugs
  • Asks

• There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Promises